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I think DoH itself is a good thing. What seems fishy though is hardcoding Cloudflare as the default DoH service.

The difference being that Lenovo did it at the firmware level. Even if you reinstalled Windows from scratch, the malware would still be installed.

What index do you suggest instead?

A couple of observations:

1. To the outside world, a LARPer might be indistinguishable from someone that actually needs perfect opsec. Maybe that LARPer in the coffee shop is Ross Ulbricht.

2. If one day you actually need real encryption, it will help if you've LARPed in the past.

I had a mastodon.social account but deleted it after the admin power tripped and started to ban instances he didn't like.

We can't blame ActivityPub, but we can blame the maintainers of Mastodon, as their website has a list of instances excluding the ones they don't like.

I think you pasted the wrong URL.

Have you read "C Programming: A modern approach" (2nd ed)? And if so, what do you think about it?

By that standard, an innocent, unreasonable person would go to jail.

Because physicality is what defines if people are free or not, and freedom is the only moral principle that a reasonable, moral society can be based upon. If you forsake freedom, you might as well forget about morality altogether.

Regulating emotions is arbitrary. Maybe it makes me sad that you post comments on HN. Should your comments be regulated?.

Physical harm is where you draw the line, because it's the only line that makes sense.

It may be legitimate when the regulated action causes direct physical harm to someone else. For example: I think it's reasonable to regulate particulate emissions.

It's not legitimate to regulate manufacture or commercialization of products when that manufacture or commercialization poses no direct threat to the physical well-being of other individuals.

I like to think that I have "hardware acceleration" for typing on QWERTY keyboards because I am so used to it that I do it unconsciously.

But when I smoke weed, I have to actively think about the position of keys in the keyboard in order to type coherent things. I have to type "by software".

The point is: maybe for some people, their spoken language is "hardware accelerated" and for others, thinking in words is too computationally expensive, so they resort to less expensive methods.

Or maybe it's the opposite. Thinking abstractly is the computationally expensive method but the improvement in decision making isn't worth the effort.

Disclaimer: I know absolutely nothing about psychology or neuroscience. I just like to think about it.

+1 to David's channel. You don't even need to know theory to enjoy his videos.

My music knowledge is limited to building major and minor triads (maybe adding a seventh here and there) and I still enjoy his videos.

I don't want to live in a place where your hard, honest work is expropriated because others are butthurt about your success.

A website is pretty different from the word processor that your OS comes with.

Ads in a word processor are like ads in your house's wall.

Ads in a website are like ads in a football stadium.

Each time I get frustrated at destkop Linux I feel tempted to just go back to Windows, but then I remember that Microsoft does this sort of thing.

4. Boycott Cloudflare.

You know what would make this even better?

A simpler URL, something like ddglite.com or ducklt.com

I don't think they expect, or even want us to take them seriously.

> If package managers weren't a good way to do things, brew wouldn't exist.

Package managers are an easy way to do things, most of the time. That's why brew exists.

They are not a universally good way to distribute and install software. It twists the relationship between the software developer and the user.

Because they impose a middleman between the application developer and the user.

I don't want a middleman, I want to get my programs from the developer, and store them using the tools I know (regular files on a filesystem).

Are package managers easy to use (most of the time)? Yes.

Are package managers (as they exist today) a universal, well designed way to distribute software? No, because they impose a middleman.

I'll go one step further:

The whole "centralized, trusted repository that has all your apps" system is wrong at a fundamental level.

The way shared libraries are used in Linux is built upon the assumption that package managers and centralized repositories are the right way to do things.

Modal window asking me to subscribe.

Low contrast between text and background, bonus points if the font is really thin.

Highlighting text does anything other than highlighting text (e.g. opening a menu to share quote on twitter)

Scrollbar highjacking

Clicking on background takes you away from the article (TechCrunch used to do this)

Scrolling down takes you to another article (some news sites do this)

> drivers are expect to use the GPL if they want to be mainlined and maintained

I think parent comment wasn't asking for third party, non-GPL drivers to be mainlined, but for a stable interface for out-of-tree drivers.

As a user, I want websites to just send cookie headers without asking. I'll decide if I want to store them and send them back.

> portable

> #define _GNU_SOURCE

If it's portable, what's the point of defining _GNU_SOURCE? Honest question.

The buttons floating at the right side are really annoying.

I think young people don't use Facebook anymore.

A new tech company will make it big by selling privacy-minded devices (or by pretending to be privacy-minded). More companies will follow and a buzzword will be created for these kind of devices (privtech or something).

Big tech companies will stop using Javascript and go full WASM. Non-tech Companies will still use Javascript, but popular Javascript frameworks won't be as big as Angular and React, they will be jQuery reincarnations.

Some important person is going to be hacked and the consequences will be bigger than you think.

Foldable phones will make a big fuss and then die just like netbooks did 10 years ago.

Google will try to replace Android and fail. Flutter will be discontinued.

Someone will try to dethrone Youtube, making a big fuss, and fail miserably.

Where is the thread for this decade?